David Dalle
Thursday September 4th, 2014 with David Dalle
Hommage à Oum Kalsoum; Lili Boniche; Cumbia All-Stars

Today we begin with some pieces from a concert at a festival in Paris put on by the Institut du Monde Arabe. This concert was an hommage to one of the greatest of all Arab singers, Oum Kalsoum. Three young singers from Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia--Riham Abdelhakim, Karima Skalli, Abid Nasraoui--gave renditions of famous songs of Oum Kalsoum accompanied by the National Arab Music Ensemble of Cairo Opera. We also hear a new album by the Cumbia All-Stars, featuring locally well known Peruvian musicians from the late 60's and 70's Peruvian Cumbia which was a mix of Columbian Cumbia with influences from Psychedelic rock. Some of these musicians are playing together for the first time in nearly 40 years. We also hear a reissue of an album by the late Lili Boniche, a Jewish-Algerian singer who mixed Algerian Arab-Andalusian music with Latin forms such as Tango and Mambo.